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Five years later .. Nujaifi reveals the "real cause" of the fall of Mosul


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3 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

Thanks Synopsis. We are really getting down to the end of the engagement in Mosul. 

 

1 hour ago, Wiljor said:

 

Thanks Syn, they are closing in and wrapping this up. :goodnews:

 

We'll see what tomorrow brings, Gentlemen! An article posted by TigerGorZow mentioned about 750 ISIS remaining. ISIS is vastly outgunned and outnumbered. There is likely a tipping point where the remaining ISIS militants will be eliminated rapidly and tomorrow just may be the day!

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Seems like the IMIS should be rounded up and executed by Iraqie civilains any way they choose to do, then shipped back to Iran. Wonder how long it will take PM Al-abadi to expel IMIS if he can. Think their homes in Iran should be blown too. 

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05/19/2017 11:18(Updated 11:25 19/05/2017) 

Iraqi forces continue to advance toward the border with Syria.

The aim of the process initiated by the popular crowd forces, part of the Iraqi armed forces, in the countryside of the city of Mosul, close to the border with Syria and tightening filled in front of the "Daesh".


The newspaper "Izvestia" said Ihsan al - Shammari, Iraqi Prime Minister adviser, said that the popular crowd forces fighting "Daesh" forces in the Mosul area will continue to move toward the west toward the Iraqi - Syrian border, aiming to prevent the incursion elements "Daesh" from Iraq to Syria and Syria to Iraq. 
Now, as the convergence of the Battle of Mosul on the end, the terrorists in Mosul , the rest does not pose a threat to the Iraqi armed forces as much as posed by terrorists who move from Iraq to Syria back and forth. For that Iraqi forces are trying to prevent it. 
The newspaper pointed out that the movement of the elements of "Daesh" between Iraq and Syria are currently without hindrance and bringing them ammunition and medicine is one of the main obstacles to the fight against regulation. Iraqis finally decided to stop the movement of terrorists or at least of their disabilities. If they were able to achieve this goal , it would be easier this is also the task of the Syrian forces fighting the terrorists.
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3 minutes ago, fnbplanet said:

This is gonna run into next week easily, no matter what they "proclaim" before then.

 

Agreed.....if the maps are up to date and accurate.  The good news it will soon be over as far as ISIS is concerned and these people can start rebuilding their lives. Hopefully, many of us as well.   Go RV.

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17 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

You, I , and most everyone here knows that they don't have any more time. If they screw the pooch on this one I can just about guarantee you that there will be hell to pay. 

I am betting that recruitment is down these days 

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14 hours ago, tigergorzow said:

IMIS militias execute civilians west of Mosul

 

May 18 2017 03:01 PM
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Corpses of civilians from Mosul,executed by the Iranian Militias in Iraq and Syria (IMIS), are piling on Gora Road, a source said on Thursday.

The source stated that IMIS executed the civilians after arresting them. 

 
 

IMIS are committing heinous crimes in Nineveh Governorate's Mosul city especially the west side of the city that has been under fire for seven months.

IMIS is a terror militia which seeks to enforce demographic changes in the country based on sectarian motives.


The terror group is manipulating the deteriorating situation in the country to carry out its vicious plots with the aid of Iran regime. 

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10742/IMIS-militias-execute-civilians-west-of-Mosul

What say ye "Mad Dog"?  A terrorist is a terrorist.  Demand that they stop killing civilians or leave.  Those that stay get hunted down and killed.  Or let Israel have them.

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Hey, Folks! Looks like sum mo Good News!

 

http://isis.liveuamap.com/en/2017/19-may-iraqi-forces-have-reportedly-fully-captured-the-highly

 

If ISIS has lost all of the 17July district, the rest of the non Old Mosul aught to fall quickly. The map just posted above may indicate ISIS is losing out on Old Mosul, too, at a rapid clip.

 

Go Moola Nova!

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Trump just left the US a few minutes ago heading to the Middle East for 3 or 4 days. Would it not be a perfect news conference if Trump and Abadi announced together that Mosul has been cleared??  Wow! That would be a wonderful opportunity for both leaders imho😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Trump Ordered Changes to 'Annihilate' Islamic State, Mattis Says

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Nafeesa Syeed
May 19, 2017, 1:45 PM EST
  • U.S. seeks to prevent foreign fighters from escaping: Mattis
  • Defense chief delivers Trump’s promised account of what’s new
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Residents flee their neighborhood as Iraqi forces continue their military offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State on May 19, 2017.

 Photographer: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. to ramp up its campaign against Islamic State with an “annihilation” campaign to surround and kill terrorists rather than chasing them out of territory in Iraq and Syria, his defense chief said.

“We’ve accelerated the campaign,” Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters Friday at the Pentagon.

Since his run for the presidency, Trump has promised what he sometimes called his “secret plan” to defeat the terrorists, and in recent days he boasted that “my generals” would be spelling out how he’s stepped up the military campaign waged under former President Barack Obama.

After Mattis said the coalition has retaken more than 55 percent of Islamic State territory since 2014, he clarified that those gains were under way before Trump took office. “I was not saying it all started with us,” he added.

Still, the terror group isn’t broken yet. A campaign to seize Mosul in Iraq has been mired in street-by-street fighting and a long-promised push to take Raqqa in Syria has yet to begin.

Read why Trump’s arming of Syrian Kurds is riling Turkey

Mattis said that under Trump, the Pentagon led a government-wide review of U.S.-led efforts fighting the Islamic State, which it then presented to the president.

“We submitted that report, and after his review, he then ordered an accelerated operation against” Islamic State, leading to two “significant changes,” Mattis said. “First, he delegated authority to the right level to aggressively -- and in a timely manner -- move against enemy vulnerabilities.” Battlefield commanders have been given more authority to make decisions.

‘Tactical Shift’

Second, Trump directed a “tactical shift” in the battle, “from shoving ISIS out of seized locations in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy in their strongholds so we can annihilate ISIS,” Mattis said using an acronym for the group. The intent is to prevent foreign fighters from escaping and returning to attack in their home countries.

“We now take the time to surround them -- and why do we do it?" Mattis said. “We carry out the annihilation campaign" so that “the foreign fighters do not get out.”

For more than a week, Trump repeatedly plugged Mattis’s appearance, adding to expectations. Responding to a question during a news conference Thursday at the White House, Trump recited a list of what he considers successes of his administration so far.

“You’re going to see some incredible numbers with respect to the success of General Mattis and others with the ISIS situation,” Trump said. “The numbers are staggering, how successful” the military has been.

Mattis spoke to reporters at the Pentagon along with Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Brett McGurk, presidential envoy for the U.S.-led coalition.

Russia’s Role

Dunford said the U.S. continues to work with Russia on “deconfliction” of their ground forces in Syria and “my impression is the Russians are as enthusiastic as we are.” Russia has proposed four “de-escalation zones” in Syria, a plan backed by Iran and Turkey. The Trump administration has neither openly supported the initiative nor ruled it out.

The U.S. role in the campaign against Islamic State will be a theme during Trump’s first overseas trip as the president talks with allies. He leaves Friday for Saudi Arabia and then heads to Israel and Rome before joining a NATO summit in Brussels next week. He’ll meet there again with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited the White House Tuesday.

Mattis, Dunford and McGurk all defended the U.S. decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria to help seize Raqqa, Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria, over strong objections from Erdogan, who contends the Kurds are allied with Kurdish groups in Turkey who are considered terrorists.

Mattis described Islamic State as a “long-term threat” and said the U.S. is “there to drive ISIS to its knees,” but added that only a political solution would resolve larger issues facing Syria. He wouldn’t comment on how long U.S. troops will be needed.

 

bloomberg.com

 
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1 hour ago, Bama Girl said:

Trump just left the US a few minutes ago heading to the Middle East for 3 or 4 days. Would it not be a perfect news conference if Trump and Abadi announced together that Mosul has been cleared??  Wow! That would be a wonderful opportunity for both leaders imho😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

yes it would

he called and wanted me there

but I had to decline

told him I am to busy running for pres of the usa

 

 

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Airstrikes Fuel Mosul Gains as Iraq Pushes for Quick Victory

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (SUSANNAH GEORGE)
May 19, 2017, 7:18 AM EST

Mosul, Iraq (AP) -- Half a dozen units of Islamic State group fighters holed up in western Mosul began their morning radio checks at just after 4 a.m. It was still dark and Iraqi forces deployed a few blocks away were listening in as they prepared an advance on the city's al-Rifai neighborhood.

"Thirty, what's new? ... 120, do you read me? What's up?" the IS radio operator said, using Iraqi slang.

About 40 minutes later the first U.S.-led coalition airstrike hit as Iraqi forces pushed across a main road and began clearing the neighborhood's narrow streets.

"We're seeing at least two squirters at the impact site," a member of the coalition force radioed back to the Iraqi troops in Australian-accented English, using a slang term for badly wounded IS fighters. Moments later the extremists were calling for doctors over their own radio network.

Over the next 12 hours, more than 10 coalition airstrikes hit al-Rifai's eastern edge. Most targeted small teams of two or three IS fighters manning sniper rifles or machine guns so Iraq's special forces units could advance on the ground.

Military operations like the one in al-Rifai this week are accelerating in Mosul as part of a drive to retake the handful of districts still under IS control before the holy month of Ramadan begins at the end of May. And despite recent allegations of increased civilian casualties, advances on the ground continue to be backed by heavy airstrikes and artillery.

Launched in mid-February, the fight for Mosul's western sector has been marked by some of the most difficult fighting and catastrophic destruction yet in Iraq's war against IS. The brutality of the operation was highlighted by a single incident just a month into the operation — a U.S. airstrike on March 17 that killed more than 100 people sheltering in a home, according to residents and other witnesses interviewed by The Associated Press.

By contrast, Mosul's eastern half was retaken in 100 days of fighting. While front lines stalled at times, the area was less densely populated, neighborhoods were more modern with wider streets allowing tanks and other armored vehicles greater freedom of movement and the area was never under siege, allowing many IS fighters to flee westward.

The number of civilians reportedly killed in coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria spiked to 1,800 in March, more than three times the number reported a month earlier, according to Airwars, a London-based group that tracks civilian deaths from coalition airstrikes. Official figures from the Pentagon, which is slower in confirming deaths, are far lower: It said last month that it has confirmed coalition airstrikes killed at least 352 civilians in Iraq and Syria combined since the campaign against IS started in 2014.

The March 17 incident sparked outrage in Iraq and beyond. The U.N. called on Iraq to conduct "an urgent review of tactics to ensure that the impact on civilians is reduced to an absolute minimum."

The Pentagon is still investigating the incident but Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, said the munitions used by the U.S. that day should not have taken the entire building down, suggesting that militants may have deliberately gathered civilians there and planted other explosives.

An Iraqi officer overseeing the Mosul operation said that after the March 17 strike, he received orders to no longer target buildings with munitions. Instead airstrikes were directed to the streets and gardens beside IS locations. But the order lasted only a few days. Now, as Iraq's army, special forces and militarized federal police push to clear the last vestiges of western Mosul held by IS, the volume of airstrikes is the same as when the mission to retake western Mosul first began, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

A few blocks from the front-line advance, Faisa Muhammed, her children and grandchildren huddled Tuesday on the ground floor of their home. Car bombs, airstrikes and mortar attacks had already broken every window in their house. Their street had been declared liberated the day before but the fight was still so close that the force of nearby explosions filled their living room with dust and blew open the curtains they had pulled closed over the shattered window frames.

Muhammed said two airstrikes hit on either side of her home over the past week. One killed a single IS fighter in a neighboring garden and another killed a three-member sniper team on the roof of another house.

"If we hear only 10 explosions in a day, that's very little," she said as her grandchildren sat quietly even as the walls around them shook. When the whine of a mortar sounded overhead everyone mechanically plugged their ears with their fingers. Soldiers took cover in her garden when a nearby airstrike sent rubble raining down on the street outside.

"This has become normal for the children," Muhammed said.

Just over eight square kilometers (three square miles) of western Mosul remains under IS control, but within that area is the Old City — congested, densely populated terrain that is expected to present some of the most difficult fighting and greatest danger to civilians.

 
 

The renewed push to drive IS out of the remaining pockets still under its control was launched just over two weeks ago and since then Iraqi forces have retaken more than 30 square kilometers (12 square miles), according to the U.S.-led coalition, forcing thousands to flee. Some 500,000 people have fled western Mosul since February and the United Nations warned another 200,000 may be forced to flee as the operation continues.

U.N. humanitarian coordinator Lise Grande called the numbers "overwhelming."

Iraqi special forces Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi said he hopes to complete the Mosul operation before Ramadan begins around May 27 in order to get resources to the hundreds of thousands of civilians believed to be besieged in IS-held Mosul.

"It is very important to reach them very quickly," he said, adding that a victory before the holy month would "bring joy to the residents of Mosul and the troops."

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Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad and Mouhammad Nouman in Mosul, Iraq, contributed to this report.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-19/airstrikes-fuel-mosul-gains-as-iraq-pushes-for-quick-victory

 

 
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Air raid kills senior ISIS leader in Mosul

May 19 2017 08:20 PM
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ISIS leader killed

 

A senior ISIS leader has been killed in an air raid on al-Shifaa neighborhood in the right bank of Mosul, Military Intelligence Directorate said on Friday.

On receiving intelligence information, the Iraqi jets destroyed an ISIS position, killing a senior terrorist within the ranks of the group named Abu-Luqman al-Afri, a statement released by the directorate said.

He was the terror group's official responsible for al-Shifaa neighborhood in the right bank of Mosul.

The iraqi forces, aided by the US-led coalition are pushing on the terror group of ISIS in the right bank of the city, which was one of the terror group's main strongholds, since February 19th.

According to officials, the Iraqi forces managed to take control of 90 percent of the city's territories, with few of ISIS terrorists still entrenched in some parts of the war-torn city.
  

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10802/Air-raid-kills-senior-ISIS-leader-in-Mosul

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Defeating ISIS 'foregone conclusion', US secretary of defense says

May 19 2017 09:51 PM
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is crediting changes in tactics ordered by President Trump for increasing the pressure on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and leaving the beleaguered fighters with no avenue of escape.

"He directed a tactical shift from shoving ISIS out of safe locations in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy in their strongholds so we can annihilate ISIS," Mattis said Friday during a Pentagon briefing on the counter-ISIS campaign.

Mattis said that by making sure foreign fighters can't get away, or return to their home countries, "We don't simply transplant this problem from one place to another."

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford pointed to two other changes that came as result of the president's direction to accelerate the defeat of ISIS, including allowing U.S. advisers to accompany partner forces closer to the front lines, and the decision to arm Syrian Kurds to facilitate the liberation of Raqqa, ISIS self-proclaimed capital in Syria.

The Pentagon says since the campaign against ISIS began in 2014, the terror group has lost more than 20,000 square miles of territory and 4.1 million people have been freed from the brutal grip of ISIS rule.
Mattis said the defeat of ISIS is a foregone conclusion.

"West Mosul, in accordance with tactics changed by President Trump, is surrounded, and our Iraqi partners are in a stiff fight," Mattis said. "There is no escape for ISIS."
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http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10805/Defeating-ISIS-foregone-conclusion-US-secretary-of-defense-says

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Security forces regain northern area of 17 Tamouz district of Mosul

May 19 2017 04:02 PM
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Iraqi army's 9th Armored Division recaptured the northern area of 17 Tamouz district in the right bank of Mosul in Nineveh governorate, "We Are Coming, Nineveh" operations commander Gen. Abd al-Amir Rashid Yarallah said on Friday.
 

Security forces, backed by International Coalition air raids and logistic support of the US army, have retaken eastern Mosul and most of its western part after six months of battles. These forces are focusing now on controlling the Old City.   

More details will be reported soon.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10791/Security-forces-regain-northern-area-of-17-Tamouz-district-of-Mosul

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